A native daughter goes free, a local bar celebrates.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Oct 03, 2011 at 01:29PM
Have a pint for Amanda tonight at Moe Bar.
A momentous news day for Seattle and the world.
Foxy Knoxy is coming home.
To celebrate, Moe Bar will be offering “EVERYTHING” for half its usual price during happy hour, according to this tweet.
Happy hour at Moe Bar lasts from 3 to 7pm daily.
I will update here if and when I hear of other celebrations around town tonight or later on in the week.
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The Starbucks bigwig hosts a virtual town hall meeting today at 4:30.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Sep 06, 2011 at 12:48PM
Thinking big: Howard Schultz takes on national politics.
Photo: AP/Elaine Thompson
Like most of us, Starbucks honcho Howard Schultz is pretty concerned that America’s elected officials are doing a very, very bad job. As such, this August he published an open letter suggesting that Americans stop contributing to campaign coffers until such time as politicians start reaching across the proverbial aisle.
And as KPLU reported Monday, Schultz published full page ads in the New York Times and USA Today urging Americans to contact their reps and insist that they put aside their party squabbles and fix our jacked-up country already! (I’m paraphrasing).
Schultz will discuss this further in an online forum today, Tuesday, September 6 at 4:30 PST. It’s hosted by No Labels, a non-partisan nonprofit that was founded in late 2010 “to address the politics of problem solving.” RSVP here.
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Portland takes the number two spot.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 29, 2010 at 01:21PM
Seattleites spend an average of $36 on coffee every month, per the Beast.
I have a research (nerd) background, which prompts me to get a little prickly about consumer pubs and their funky methodologies for creating top 10 lists, but this one seems relatively solid. Seattle is the Caffeine Capital of America, according to findings from The Daily Beast.
Such a declaration may seem obvious, but Portland’s been making moves.
Here are Seattle’s stats, per the article.
Coffee shops per 100,000 residents: 35
Caffeine survey rank: 2
Average monthly spending on coffee: $36
The Beast started by determining which cities had the most coffee shops in relation to residents. Some of these, like Portland, were not included in the caffeine survey they used for the second stat, so the Daily Beast normalized those scores. The average monthly spending on coffee came from a Mint.com survey from the first quarter of 2010.
Stumptown has only has 28 coffee shops per 100,000 residents. (How do they survive down there?) and its residents spend an average of just $33 on coffee per month. Honestly, seems pretty close to me. But still, you take a win where you can get it, know what I mean?
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based on psychiatrists per capita, stress, eccentricity and drinking levels. Where do you think Seattle fell?
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 12, 2010 at 10:04AM
If you believe The Daily Beast, Cincinnati is America’s craziest city. Seattle? We rank 19th, slightly less crazy than Pittsburgh (and Portland, # 17), but more crazy than Columbus, Ohio. (I should hope so!) We got pretty high marks for drinking, however, a 25 out of a possible 57.
Drinking scores were determined based on “heavy drinking, defined as two drinks a day or more for men, and one drink a day or more for women. With data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2008.”
One drink a day or more for women is “heavy drinking?” That’s crazy!
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